00:00Nevada County Sheriff's Office
00:02Sheriff Shannon Moon confirmed on Saturday that rescue crews have recovered nine victims following an avalanche at Castle Peak in
00:09the Sierra Nevada, which swept over a group of skiers on Tuesday.
00:13Moon identified the dead as Blackbird Mountain Guides members Andrew Alessandratos, Nicole, Nikki, Chu, and Michael Henry, along with skiers
00:23Carrie Atkin, Lisbeth Clabaugh, Danielle Keatley, Kate Morse, Caroline Seacar, and Catherine Vitt.
00:30Today I can confirm that we have recovered nine of our missing skiers. We still have search and rescue staff
00:43and members out on the mountain, so I'm not going to say our recovery mission is complete until all of
00:50our responders and folks that have really done an incredible job over the last several days, until they're all home.
01:00back at the office.
01:01Lieutenant Dennis Hack said crews conducted reconnaissance flights on Friday and carried out avalanche mitigation before deploying search and rescue
01:10personnel.
01:11He added that the California Highway Patrol and the California National Guard assisted in hoist operations on Saturday.
01:18The final victim was recovered at 10.58 a.m., with 42 search and rescue volunteers involved in the operation.
01:25Authorities are also conducting a parallel investigation to determine whether criminal negligence contributed to the incident.
01:32No charges have been announced.
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